How one little tool changed my career. Life story.
56My name is John Lumberjack.
And now i live a calm and peaceful life of a retired person in my house, near Honolulu, Hawaii..
But it hasn't always been like that. Moreover, if someone told me 5 years ago what's gonna happen to me, I would've never believe in that... Once upon a time in March 2003 i woke up, went to work.. and figured out, i wasn't able to pay for the gas.. When i called my bank, they told me almost all of my money, almost all that i've saved for the future pension was withdrawn by IRS for severe taxation violations, that i was unfortunately unaware of.. That was a though moment.. all i was dreaming about - nice house.. cool car and calm peaceful life of a retired person has vanished in a second... At that time i was working as a web developer in a small company, so it was almost impossible for me to regain my wealth... But i always believed that no matter how big your trouble is - there is always a way.
So one day, i came to the office, cheched my morning e-mail, and, as usually got a ton of stupid spam (sounds familiar, huh?)... all these messages about cheap watches, free viagra and uber-hardcore-crazy-ass free porn were driving me crazy...but then an idea came to my mind. There is so mucs spam about porn... and if, supposingly, 1% of users clicks one link.. and 1%of those who clicks does buy videos there... Even with such a small productivity, this is a load of money!
So i desided to become a porn tycoon.... I had good experience in web-developing, so creating a site was not a problem... making it more or less popular was neither.. the toughest thing was to get some unique content (i coud have got videos from free porn sites, but selling those wouldn't have brought me money).. So there was a tough moment with my conscience and morality, but finally i made a decision. All that i had to do - was to persuade my wife... All of a sudden, she agreed easily. From that day on, my life changed radically... All day long i was Johhny, ordinary IT guy, and at night I became Hew Heffner...We searhcing for porno content in web, I slept 2 hours a day, and what i first thought was a funny interesting business turned out to be an exhausting job.
Eventually, my colleagues and my boss started noticing that something was going wrong... My efficiency decreased radically (of course it did! trying to maintain a popular porn resource, upload videos and do job tasks simultaneously was a real tough challenge), and Boss started pauing more attention to what i was doing - even trying to catch me in the act - trying to oversee my monitor.
I had hard time to minimize all stuff untill he comes - it was like a duel. But using special tools for xp system tray mage this easier - one click and you are innocent. I used minimize to tray tool by the way.
After switching to vista it became harder to hide stuff fast, but vista system tray forum helped me - and if let my webpage grow...
Time went by, we got more money, more visitors. more ideas for my wife and me to turn real... When all of a sudden one day my boss spotted me. That was a huuuge scandal! I had to qiut, and you imagine what does it mean - almost no money, no job, and several years before retirement...
That was one more tough moments... Luckily, i managet to get a job in the web sector of one of our ISP... I had great recommendations (sure enough, i haven't spoken about the reasons i qiuted my last job) so they hired me... I planned to continue my business, which occupied most of my time, but in order not to be caught - i bought a special boss pedal at amazon - a very handy and useful toy if you need to hide something, by the way.
Needless to say, that nobody at work could suspect an almost senior sitizen in such dirty stuff, so the last year ran smoothly. I made all the money i needed, bought the house of my dream, where i do hapily leave now with my wife.
So, this is my story
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All my life, all my friends called me Lumberjack. And this nickname is like real name for me and it's has own story.
I think i will create hub about real names and nicknames soon. -)
Cool! ...Please Do!
We have a few "LumberJacks"
here in Canada too,
but I never thought
in a million years
I would meet one online
that is sporting
a "Hawiian Shirt"
and living the
LIFE of HIS DREAMS!
Most lumberjacks here wear:
Please check your email. I sent you an email earlier and I am very interested in your reply.
ok. replied. -)











HubPageGuy says:
2 years ago
Great Story John! :-) Is your last name really Lumberjack?